CAUSES AND PATTERNS OF FEMALE CRIMINALITY; A CRIMINOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

CAUSES AND PATTERNS OF FEMALE CRIMINALITY; A CRIMINOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Women have long been considered physically and mentally subordinate and unproductive to men in every religious society. The trend may have slowed in the twenty-first century due to the advent of media, women commissions, NGOs, human rights organizations, and so on, but we still hear of widespread violence against the “creators of life,” particularly in backward and developing countries. This term paper would focus on the situation of female criminality; its causes and consequences. Women face discrimination as a result of some inherent and widespread social and religious factors in Bangladeshi society.

Female criminality refers to the types of crimes committed solely by women. Until recently, it was widely assumed that crime is primarily a male phenomenon.

The world of crime is solely a male phenomenon, and the world of crime is solely a man’s world. Women’s criminal behavior has received less attention than men’s. This is due in part to the fact that women commit fewer crimes than men, particularly violent crimes, and in part to the fact that female aggression is typically carried out in private and domestic settings.

Discrimination against women in Bangladesh is largely due to some inherent and common social and religious factors. Bangladeshi women, like their Indian and Pakistani counterparts (both Muslims and non-Muslims), have been subjected to unjust local social taboos and norms. People still adhere to the ancient belief that women should only be regarded as child-bearers and housewives, and as a result, they are oppressed. Throughout their lives, they face discrimination from their parents, husbands, and sons. The little attention paid to female offenders was usually limited to three situations: I a comparison of women’s lack of involvement in crime in comparison to men; (ii) studies of prostitution; and (iii) analyses of the depravity of violent women, with the rationale being that because normal women are passive, the few women who commit violent crime must be sick (Curran and Ranzetti: 2001). However, because of the nature of news published in popular media, female criminality is gaining reader attention in the modern era. Because of women’s marginalization in family life and the workplace, the number of crimes committed by women has increased in recent years. Complex lifestyles (Islam and Khatun, 2013), as well as the influence of popular media (Siegel: 2007).